[opensuse] KRunner & # or ## no longer work
For many years, I've been using Alt-F2 & # to call up man pages (or ## for info), but that seems to no longer work. I find it now opens some PDF, which has nothing to do with what I want. I recall there's a setting somewhere for KRunner to configure what runs. However, I can't seem to find it. Things like man:, dict: and call: still work OK. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
For many years, I've been using Alt-F2 & # to call up man pages (or ## for info), but that seems to no longer work. I find it now opens some PDF, which has nothing to do with what I want.
Hi James it works for me in KDE on leap422. Alt-F2 #gcc opens the gcc man page in Konqueror. I haven't done anything special to make it work. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.9°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/03/2017 10:04 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
For many years, I've been using Alt-F2 & # to call up man pages (or ## for info), but that seems to no longer work. I find it now opens some PDF, which has nothing to do with what I want. Hi James
it works for me in KDE on leap422. Alt-F2 #gcc opens the gcc man page in Konqueror. I haven't done anything special to make it work.
When I do that, the O'Reilly "Asterisk The Definitive Guide" PDF opens up. However, as I mentioned, I have seen a setting somewhere for configuring what happens, but that was many years ago I last did it and I've long since forgotten where it was. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On April 3, 2017 7:10:40 AM PDT, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
James Knott wrote:
For many years, I've been using Alt-F2 & # to call up man pages (or ## for info), but that seems to no longer work. I find it now opens some PDF, which has nothing to do with what I want. Hi James
it works for me in KDE on leap422. Alt-F2 #gcc opens the gcc man
On 04/03/2017 10:04 AM, Per Jessen wrote: page
in Konqueror. I haven't done anything special to make it work.
When I do that, the O'Reilly "Asterisk The Definitive Guide" PDF opens up. However, as I mentioned, I have seen a setting somewhere for configuring what happens, but that was many years ago I last did it and I've long since forgotten where it was.
Isn't it under that little settings icon which appears on the little pop-down window when you first press alt-f2? -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/03/2017 10:58 AM, John Andersen wrote:
I've long since forgotten where it was. Isn't it under that little settings icon which appears on the little pop-down window when you first press alt-f2?
That lists the available plugins, not what runs when you type something like dict:, #, etc., in the box. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 03/04/17 11:05 AM, James Knott wrote:
On 04/03/2017 10:58 AM, John Andersen wrote:
I've long since forgotten where it was. Isn't it under that little settings icon which appears on the little pop-down window when you first press alt-f2?
That lists the available plugins, not what runs when you type something like dict:, #, etc., in the box.
And some of them are obscure. There's a "unit converter" listed but if I enter "32 degrees Fahrenheit" I don't see anything that tells me now to convert it. All I get is a list of obscure, irrelevant PDFs and e-books that I have on-line. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/03/2017 08:11 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
There's a "unit converter" listed but if I enter "32 degrees Fahrenheit" I don't see anything that tells me now to convert it.
Try "32F" and see what happens. -- -Gerry Makaro aka Fraser_Bell on the forums, IRC, and mail at openSUSE.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 03/04/17 05:08 PM, Fraser_Bell wrote:
On 04/03/2017 08:11 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
There's a "unit converter" listed but if I enter "32 degrees Fahrenheit" I don't see anything that tells me now to convert it.
Try "32F" and see what happens.
As always, I get a pile of PDFs and pile of ebooks, before, right there at the bottom, kelvin and centigrade. I'd say "thanks" but this is clear as mud. I'd normally put a space after the numbers and the use of abbreviation only is .... ambiguous. And, not least of all, when I enter "273K" I don't get the PDFs and ebooks. Next up: cubic centimetres[1] to fluid ounces, and "cups", kitchen measure :-) Go on, try it. Is all this documented somewhere? [1] Try millilitres instead :-) -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 03/04/17 10:04 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
it works for me in KDE on leap422. Alt-F2 #gcc opens the gcc man page in Konqueror. I haven't done anything special to make it work.
Oh, how come? Although I have firefox set as my default browser in kde setting and kde setting5 but when I do that it wants to open Chromium as the man page browser, as well as KDEWallet. I don't have Chromium configured anywhere I can find.
grep -Ril chromium ./.[A-ZA-z][A-Za-z0-9]*
Lots of binaries, cached stuff, but nothing to indicate chromiums is configured... Ah, GOTCHA! ./.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list [Default Applications] application/pdf=kde4-okularApplication_pdf.desktop; text/html=chromium-browser.desktop But where does that get changed/edited? And why are man pages opened with a browser? -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/04/17 10:04 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
it works for me in KDE on leap422. Alt-F2 #gcc opens the gcc man page in Konqueror. I haven't done anything special to make it work.
Oh, how come?
Although I have firefox set as my default browser in kde setting and kde setting5 but when I do that it wants to open Chromium as the man page browser, as well as KDEWallet.
I'm using vivaldi. For me, nothing happens.
Ah, GOTCHA! ./.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
[Default Applications] application/pdf=kde4-okularApplication_pdf.desktop; text/html=chromium-browser.desktop
But where does that get changed/edited?
Did you once try it, and uninstall later? Happened to me once with vlc. Installed it, and it immediately made itself default application for all kind of things. I was *really* pissed of by this....
And why are man pages opened with a browser?
They are not. Unless your browser is konqueror, it seems. Maybe that explains why it stopped for James? Changed default browser? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/04/2017 09:30 AM, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
They are not. Unless your browser is konqueror, it seems. Maybe that explains why it stopped for James? Changed default browser?
No, I still use Konqueror and it still works with dict:, man: etc. It's just # & ## that stopped working. So, if I want a man page, I have to use man: instead of #. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Am Dienstag, 4. April 2017, 15:40:23 CEST schrieb James Knott:
On 04/04/2017 09:30 AM, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
They are not. Unless your browser is konqueror, it seems. Maybe that explains why it stopped for James? Changed default browser?
No, I still use Konqueror and it still works with dict:, man: etc. It's just # & ## that stopped working. So, if I want a man page, I have to use man: instead of #.
# and d## can only work with konqueror, because this one an use kio and therefore the man:/ and info:/ protocols. A logical alternative for KF5/Plasma would be to redirect #, ##, man:/ and info:/ to khelpcenter instead. Herbert
On 04/04/2017 04:59 PM, Herbert Graeber wrote:
On 04/04/2017 09:30 AM, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
They are not. Unless your browser is konqueror, it seems. Maybe that explains why it stopped for James? Changed default browser? No, I still use Konqueror and it still works with dict:, man: etc. It's just # & ## that stopped working. So, if I want a man page, I have to use man: instead of #. # and d## can only work with konqueror, because this one an use kio and
Am Dienstag, 4. April 2017, 15:40:23 CEST schrieb James Knott: therefore the man:/ and info:/ protocols.
A logical alternative for KF5/Plasma would be to redirect #, ##, man:/ and info:/ to khelpcenter instead.
This is something that worked until recently. When I type the #, I get a list of PDFs and way down at the bottom "Go to man:/<command>. Why is that list of PDFs now there? It didn't used to be. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/03/2017 10:04 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
For many years, I've been using Alt-F2 & # to call up man pages (or ## for info), but that seems to no longer work. I find it now opens some PDF, which has nothing to do with what I want. Hi James
it works for me in KDE on leap422. Alt-F2 #gcc opens the gcc man page in Konqueror. I haven't done anything special to make it work.
It doesn't work for me on both of my computers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
On 04/03/2017 10:04 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
For many years, I've been using Alt-F2 & # to call up man pages (or ## for info), but that seems to no longer work. I find it now opens some PDF, which has nothing to do with what I want. Hi James
it works for me in KDE on leap422. Alt-F2 #gcc opens the gcc man page in Konqueror. I haven't done anything special to make it work.
It doesn't work for me on both of my computers.
Have you recently changed your default browser? If I enter '#' at the Run-command prompt, it does show the man:/ prefix, but my default browser (vivaldi) doesn't understand it, so nothing happens.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/04/2017 09:32 AM, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
Have you recently changed your default browser? If I enter '#' at the Run-command prompt, it does show the man:/ prefix, but my default browser (vivaldi) doesn't understand it, so nothing happens....
No. It's still Konqueor and things like dict:, man: still work, but not # or ##. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2017-04-03 a las 16:04 +0200, Per Jessen escribió:
James Knott wrote:
For many years, I've been using Alt-F2 & # to call up man pages (or ## for info), but that seems to no longer work. I find it now opens some PDF, which has nothing to do with what I want.
Hi James
it works for me in KDE on leap422. Alt-F2 #gcc opens the gcc man page in Konqueror. I haven't done anything special to make it work.
On XFCE, the sequence opens a terminal already displaying the man page. The ## sequence tries to, but the window closes to fast to see what it displays. But not a graphical reader. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAljjZ2cACgkQja8UbcUWM1y1rQD/Wrmmc2ErdBr23JzWr88sPRyQ dWO8EDbe+yxWLbKpH6AA/jL8hSdS1YGrpad4lnstjc6Q1LnfFZFv3MX2ANXi92R6 =bC8Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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